Four-time champions India punctured Bangladesh's dream of making history in the SAFF Women's Championship by handing last edition's runners-up a clinical 4-0 defeat in the second semifinal of the fifth edition at the Sahid Rangashala in Biratnagar yesterday.

Japan holds great potential for Bangladesh's ICT sector, with the Fareast nation on course to generating a lion's share of the government's export target of $5 billion by 2021, said entrepreneurs yesterday.